kös
See also: Appendix:Variations of "kos"
Icelandic
Etymology
From the Old Norse kös (“a heap, a pile”).[1] Confer the Nynorsk kos and kas and a dialectal Swedish kas,[1] possibly related to the Latin agger (“a rampart, a bulwark; a dam; a heap, a pile”), congeriēs (“a heap, a pile, a mass; a collection, an accumulation”) and gerō (“I carry, I bear”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
kös f (genitive singular kasar, nominative plural kasir)
- a pile (e.g. of stones, blubber or the like)
- a heap of fish
- (computing) a heap; a large pool of unused memory whence dynamic memory is allocated[2]
Declension
| Declension of kös | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| f-s2 | singular | plural | ||
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | kös | kösin | kasir | kasirnar |
| accusative | kös | kösina | kasir | kasirnar |
| dative | kös | kösinni | kösum | kösunum |
| genitive | kasar | kasarinnar | kasa | kasanna |
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon — Íslensk orðsifjabók, (1989). Reykjavík, Orðabók Háskólans. (Available on Málið.is under the “Eldra mál” tab.)
- ^ kös
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Icelandic Web of Science: Hvað er þetta 'kas' þegar konur eru kasólettar? (“What does the kas in kasólettur mean?”)
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Swedish
Noun
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